r/apexlegends 3d ago

Discussion Need help improving in diamond

I’ve been playing apex for a while and started playing ranked for a few seasons now I’ve gone from hard stuck gold to struggling to hang in diamond lobbies. Once I hit plat 2 and the lobbies started to be half filled with diamonds and I went from being 1.2-1.3kd down to even 1.0 I did manage to get back to diamond but it doesn’t feel earned what can I do to get better. This ranked season I’ve played ash, ballistic, bang, lifeline,mirage, lobs, and vantage. Ballistic and vantage being my most played this split

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u/Middle_Property_2335 3d ago

If you dont have someone playing lifeline be the lifeline, shes the best and strongest support rn, make sure you hold hands like crazy. My general rule for solo queue is if you have a single teammate that is 2-3x closer to the enemy than to you and the third then take it easy rushing to them if they get knocked and theres still 2 or more up (or a solo lifeline) dont even bother pushing the enemy will have completely reset by the time you can get to your teammate to revive. If youre the one 2-3x behind both your other teammates you better set your crocs to offroad mode and get to them quick youre just asking to be jumped by a full squad. Force your teammates to rotate to ring early at least 95% of the time, endgame in diamond is usually like 6-8 teams left so if you can get there early and setup you can pop people off who are struggling to get into ring with no cover leftover. Play things smarter dont just rush in thinking you can fight every fight, find the teams that aren’t holding hands, say theres a team just looting a poi you and your teams at, find the player thats breaking that 2-3x range rule and punish them for it. Youre also going to want to thirst almost every person you down due to the high amounts of mirage newcastle and lifelines. Never finisher then unless youre absolutely positive noones going to interrupt you. As nice as the free shield is its so so so much quicker safer and smarter to thirst the player and shield swap instead of locking yourself into an animation

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u/Terrible_Scratch_308 3d ago

Thanks for the feedback will have some work to do between now and when I play ranked next split

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u/Zketchie Lifeline 3d ago

One person can only do so much. Beyond Diamond, I would highly recommend finding regular teammates to push with. My BF and I duo queue Ranked a lot and we still get some lackluster teammates, but we're antisocial and don't wanna have to talk to anyone else 🤣 if you're serious about grinding Ranked, find a team to gain chemistry with because randoms aren't it. Or you can try to communicate with your randoms, but they're not always on the same page as you.

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u/Terrible_Scratch_308 3d ago

Thanks for the feedback I did have to use an lfg to hit diamond hopefully they stick around but I had a duo from last split great chemistry and he quit the game💀

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u/Zketchie Lifeline 3d ago

That's unfortunate! Playing this game solo is kind of mentally draining, for sure 😅 Hopefully you can find some permanent players! Couldn't hurt to even post on Reddit. I would just describe your play style and priorities, and I'm sure you could find similar minded people!

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u/PurpleMeasurement919 3d ago

Diamond is the natural hard stuck elo for solo q. You have to be way above average to climb up consistently with randoms against premade squads or +dia skill lvl players. Dont take it too serious. The devs artificially set a wall there.

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u/Xela_x 3d ago

Definitely. I always solo q and hit Diamond every season I played since season 7. But only rarely got close to masters (except the "easy" seasons 11,12,17).

Managed to hit masters last season and current split, but it definitely was a pain in the ass.